GREENVILLE —There’s more feast than famine at the plate this season for the Metro East Bears American Legion baseball team.

Last season’s Bears, who went 31-10 and were within one game of qualifying for the American Senior Legion World Series, were more prone to have a feast or famine approach at the plate and had more guys with capabilities to put balls out of the park.

Although the 2016 Bears have hitters capable of doing the same, there seems to be more of a balance from top to bottom of guys with the ability to get on base.

Leadoff batter Cole Cimarolli, the Bears’ right fielder, has been setting the table for his teammates. He was 5-for-6 in the leadoff spot in a pair of wins Friday at the Greenville Wood Bat Classic.

“I like all the guys; we’re really coming together,” said Cimoralli, who graduated from Edwardsville High this past spring. “We’re starting to mesh and doing good as a team.

“Top to bottom, we can hit. We’re all good ballplayers. We’re just doing the right things. Taking good swings, let the bad balls go, just doing what we can.”

When asked if this offense, which has averaged 7.5 runs per game through the first four while only giving up 1.5 runs, can get better, Bears manager Ken Schaake smiled.

“Oh yeah,” Schaake said. “We’ve got a couple players that are still working … there’s a possibility of Brock Weimer still, when he recoups, can be on this team. You add a bat like that in the middle of the order, you start dropping other guys down, they’re going to see different kinds of pitches than they would see in the middle of the order. That’s going to help us. And when they go to metal bats, it’s going to be even better.

“I think we’re solid and right now, they’re showing that they do take the right approach to the game.”

The Bears are prone to spraying the ball around the diamond and also prone to more consistently get on base.

And when there are days like the Bears had in Jerseyville against good pitching, they turn to their own pitchers and find a way to win.

Or at least that’s how the early part of the games have played out.

“We don’t worry about it,” Foss said. “We all know we’re good hitters and we can make adjustments. We’ll be locked in. We know each other from playing baseball and the more games we play, the more fun it is and we feel like it’ll be a good year.”

More than anything, the Bears are trying to find ways to mesh as the season progresses.

“I think gradually it’ll happen,” Cimarolli said. “We’re working into it, doing what we can and doing our best. We’re taking good swings and trying to work into it.”

But the Bears, playing in their first tournament of the season here in Greenville, have the ultimate goal in mind.

“We just want to win ball games and get ready for the Great Lakes Regional,” Foss said.